Speed of light challenge proposed by physicists, according to New Scientist 23 November 2016 and ScienceDaily 25 November 2016. Many theories in physics and cosmology, including Einstein’s theory of relativity, are based on the belief that the speed of light in a vacuum is always constant. In the late 1990’s this assumption was questioned by […]
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Mutant Butterflies in Japan
Mutant butterflies found in japan, according to an article in Nature Scientific Reports, doi:10.1038/srep00570, 9 August 2012. Scientists from University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa, Japan have studied butterflies from the region affected by the release of radioactive materials from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant following the great earthquake in March 2011. They collected […]
Broken Speed of Light
Breaking light’s speed limit described in New Scientist, 18 Aug 2007, p8. Two German physicists have propelled photons (particles of light) across a gap between two prisms at a speed much faster than light – something Einstein’s special theory of relativity claims is impossible. Gunter Nimtz and Alfons Stahlhofen, of the University of Koblenz, were […]